Scientific data near [36.63333, 47.50000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Iran	country
Asia Minor and Middle East	continent
Land	continent

Evaporite-related potash permissive tracts

Estimates of the number of undiscovered evaporite-related potash deposits

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Tract	Deposit Type
Qom-Great Kavir	halokinetic potash-bearing salt	Both economic and geologic factors would impede development

Major mineral deposits of the world

Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel mineral commodities. Originally compiled in five parts by diverse authors, combined here for convenience despite likely inconsistencies among the regional reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Commodity
Angouran	Hydrothermal	Zinc, Lead

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Angouran Pb - Zn Mine	Producer	ZN PB

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Sanandaj-Sirjan	porphyry copper	Late TriassicEarly Cretaceous continental arc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Border Folds	porphyry copper	Late Cretaceous to 3arly Paleocene continental arc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Esfahan	porphyry copper	Late Paleocene to middle-late Eocene backarc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Pontide (Asia)—Caucasus-Iran sub-tract	porphyry copper	Late Cretaceous to middle Eocene island to continental arc and backarc of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Plio-Quaternary—Post-collisional	porphyry copper	Late Miocene to Holocene postcollisional magmatism of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.
Azerbaijan—Caucasus-Iran	porphyry copper	Latest Eocene to early Miocene postcollisional magmatism of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt.